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Monday, September 24, 2012

The annual Word on the Street
Festival in Halifax, N.S., 23 September, 2012,
was a busy day for the Elizabeth Bishop Society of Nova Scotia. Thousands of people throng the
waterfront, attending readings and talking with all the exhibitors. Suzie
LeBlanc and Sandra Barry were the keepers of the flame that day, with help from several
enthusiastic EBSNS members. We all had a great time
chatting with old and new friends. We were delighted to see how many people
(local and from away) knew something about Elizabeth Bishop and were eager to
talk with us about her. We were able to promote the Elizabeth Bishop Legacy
recording, one of our main aims, as well as the other EB100 legacy projects. We even raised a little
money for the recording. The purpose of this kind of event is to spread the
word, to publicize our activities, and hundreds of people went away from our festive table with a bright
shiny red, blue, green or purple pencil with “Home-made, home-made! But aren’t
we all?” and the EBSNS website address or this blog's address on them. Purple was the
favourite colour!

A reminder about the wonderful perks available when you contribute

to the Elizabeth Bishop Legacy Recording

(check them out on the EB Legacy Recording site)

Thank you to the volunteers who
came by to help out, Janet Maybee, Brian Bartlett, Susan Kerslake and John
Barnstead. A special thank you to writer Mary Ellen Sullivan and her husband
Jim Stewart for help with the early morning set up. A heartfelt thank you to
musician Joanne Hatfield who came by in the afternoon as our energies were
flagging and treated us to some lovely Brazilian music!! There was a
spontaneous jam session with Suzie and John Barnstead joining in, doing
harmony. We had the loveliest-sounding exhibit in the whole place! We will be
updating about the EB Legacy Recording in the near future (www.eb100legacyrecording.blogspot.ca).

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John Barnstead

I retired in 2014 after forty years of teaching Russian language and literature. I'm a past president of the Elizabeth Bishop Society of Nova Scotia.

Sandra Barry

I am a poet, independent scholar, freelance editor, and secretary of the Elizabeth Bishop Society of Nova Scotia.

Suzie LeBlanc

I am a professional singer who recently has become a great admirer of Elizabeth Bishop's writing. I am also fond of walking and nature. I became involved with the Elizabeth Bishop Centenary because I wanted to have her poems set to music so that I could sing them.